You cannot reason with madmen

The media continues to focus on stories about people whose lives have changed since the 9-11 “tragedy.” Let us get this straight. This was not a tragedy. It was cold-blooded murder, planned and executed by a bunch of subhuman barbarians practicing a pagan religion which preaches (apparently) that they will go to some virginal paradise somewhere if they kill every American alive, and get extra virgins for killing all the Israelis, too.

My life has changed in only one way. I am enraged and I want them all “eliminated.” I hope President Bush carpet-bombs these murderers back into the stone age, which from all appearances, is not far from where they are now.

Lest you think me revengeful, think about this: They have told us they are going to kill us all, they have preached it, they have written it down, and they have started to do it. They will continue until they are stopped. If we have learned anything at all from history, it is that we cannot reason with madmen (especially the religious variety), and appeasing them is a sure path to bigger and bigger wars.

Let us not waste time on 9-11 pondering “why they hate us so much” or how to cope with the “9-11 tragedy.” I don’t really care why they hate us and I will cope much better when these vermin meet their virgins personally, the sooner the better.

Edmonds

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